Two-wheeled vehicle



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TWO WHEELED VEHICLE. No. 350,034. Patented Sept. 28, 1886.

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(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2. G. G. BOVEY.

TWO WHEELED VEHICLE. No. 350,034. Patented Sept. 28, 1886.

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GEORGE O. BOVEY, OF MOUNT MORRIS, ILLlNOIS.

TWO-WHEELED VEHICLE.

O SPECIFICATIEON forming part of Letters Patent No. 350,034, dated September 28, 1886.

Serial No. 203,295. (No model.)

To all whmn it may concern.-

Beit known that LGEORGE O. BOvEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Mount Morris, in the countyof Ogle and State of Illinois, haveinventedanew and useful Improvement in Vehicles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a class of vehicles known in the trade as the road-cart, but more particularly as the sulky road-cart. In this class of vehicles as usually constructed the movement of the horse harnessed to the vehicle impartsa vertical movement to the forward end of the thills, which is transferred to the foot-basket and to the seat, and in traveling this movement becomes fatiguing to the occupant. To lessen this rocking movement and render this class of vehicles less fatiguing, both to the occupant and to. the horse, I have produced the vehicle represented in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a plan view of a vehicle embodying my invention, and in which the rear portion of the thills only is shown and portions of the seat broken away. Fig. 2 is a side ele' vati'on with one ofthecarryingwheels omitted and portions of the thills broken away. Fig. 3is a rear elevation.

In the figures the axle-tree 1 is of the usual construction, provided with axle arms 2, on which the carrying-wheels 3, of any suitable construction, are mounted to revolve. A wood backing, 4, is placed on the upper face of the axle-tree, and its end portions are held in place thereon by means of clips 5,employed to fix the thill-iron 6 in place. The thills 7, joined by means of a cross-bar, 8, are fixed to the thill-irons fixed to the axle-tree. An elliptic spring, 9, is fixed centrally on the axletree, and on the center of its upper leaf is fixed a spring bar, 10, extending parallel with the axle treer Seat-supports 11 are hingejointed at their forward ends to the thills, from which connection they extend rearward, inclining inward,and overlap the end portions of the spring-bar, to which they are fixed. A seat,.12, is fixed on the rear portions of the seat-supports over the spring-bar. Foot-basket supports of bracket form, consist-ing of diverging arms 13 and 14,j oined at their forward ends, extend rearward to connect with the The lower arm, 14, of the brackets axle-tree.

extends rearward and engages the under face.

of the axle-tree inward of the clip-connection of the thills. The upper arm, 13, ofthebracket extends rearward in the same vertical plane of thelower arm, and its rear end portion overlaps the upper face of the axle-tree, on which it rests, and its extreme rear end portion, 15, is bent downward to embrace the rear face of the axle-tree, having its depending end fitted to enter a perforation formed in the rearward projecting end of the lower arm, 14:, of the bracket, and a screw-nut fitted to its depending end, in connection with a screw-bolt, 16, passed through both arms 13 and 14 in front of the axle-tree,serves to fix the brackets firmly in place on the axle-tree. The forward-project-ing ends of the bracket-arms 13 and. 14 at their junction are bored to receive a transverse bar, 17,connecting the brackets on the opposite sides of the vehicle. Basket-supporting arms 18 on each side ofthe vehicle are hinge-jointed at their forward ends on the transverse bar 17, connecting the forward ends of the bracketsupports. The rear ends of the basket-sup porting arms 18 engage the under face of the spring-bar ends, and are fixed thereto by means of the screw-bolt that fixes the seat in place on seat-supports. Curved-bar basket supports 19 on each side of the vehicle are hinge-jointed at their forward ends on the transverse bar 17, connecting the forward end of the bracket supports, and their rear-ends aresupported on the basket-supporting arm 18 by means of a barbolt, 20, the lower end of which extends through the rear end of the curved-bar support, and its depending end is provided with a screw-nut to hold the parts in place. Footsupporting slats 21 are placed at proper equal intervals on the concave side of the curved-bar supports, and their end portions, resting on ing arm connecting the forward end of the 1. The combination, with the axle-treeofa road'cart, of basket-supporting brackets fixed to the ax1e-tree and extending forward thereof, and a transverse bar connecting the Forward endsof the brackets, substantially as and for the purpose set forth. p

2. The combination, with the basketsupports fixed to the axle-tree and projecting forward thereof, and with the spring-bar; of basket-supporting arms hinge -jointed to the bracketsupportsand fixed to the spring-bar, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

3. The combination, with the bracket-supports fixed to theaxle-tree and projectingforward thereof, and with the basket-supportbrackets with the spring-bar, of a foot-basket hinge-j ointed at its forward end to the braeketsupports, and itsv rear end suspended from the supporting-arm, substantially as and for the 20 purpose set forth. v

4. The combination,with the thills, with the spring-bar, and with the bra'cketsnpports, of a seat supported on the spring-bar, and the forward ends of its supportshinge-joi'nted to the 25 thi lls, a foot-basket supported at its rear end to the spring-bar, and its forward end hingejointed to the bracket-supports, substantially as and for the purpose set forth;

GEORGE G. BOVEY.

Witnesses:

SAMUEL W. HANES, JAMES L. AKINS. 

